[auton-users] NOTICE: Lab Downtime Monday Dec 28.

[Michael J. Baysek]

Hi Lab.


Please read this email in its entirety.  If you have any questions or 
concerns, you need to let me know as soon as possible.


All Auton Lab systems will be offline on Monday Dec 28 beginning at 8:00 
AM.  This includes web servers, file servers, TCube Web Interface 
instances, CVS, Subversion, VPN, and Linux desktops, and pretty much 
everything else I haven't mentioned.  I expect that by 5:00 PM, most 
services will again be available. 


When the system comes back up, we will have a new fileserver.  The mount 
points for home and data directories will be changing.  BigPapa will be 
going away.  If you currently access "/mnt/BigPapa" from a Linux box 
named gs*.sp.cs.cmu.edu, you will need to email me and request the new 
mount points be setup correctly on your machine.  If you are using a 
machine in the .auton.cs.cmu.edu or .autonlab.org domains, I will make 
all necessary changes for you.


Additionally, the internal IP addressing scheme will be changing.  For 
years, we have used 192.168.1.x as our internal IP range.  This has 
limited our ability to work offsite over VPN in a number of ways since 
most home routers use this address range.  This longstanding issue will 
also be resolved during the downtime.


OUTAGE:  Monday December 28
WHEN:    8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (for critical services)


Mike


P.S.  I recommend if you need to keep working during the outage, to copy 
whatever you are working on locally and work on it that way.  Keep in 
mind, you won't be able to log into any BigPapa connected desktops at 
all, so don't copy it there!